EDITORIAL: Training center pushes Nissan to next gear

6:26 PM,
Jun. 7, 2013

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The Daily News Journal

The automaker continues to move forward, and quickly, as the Technology Center Director Lynn Kreider confirmed recently that the state will build a Nissan Training Center as part of a branch of Tennessee Technology Center of Murfreesboro on property across from Smyrna plant. The state is in the process of purchasing 22 acres of a former retail site off Nissan Drive for a 154,000-square-foot educational facility to be built by the Board of Regents.

It's an illustration of what happens when towns attract the right kind of company. Nissan ...